Band-brake.



A. L. RIKER.

BAND BRAKE. APPLICATION FILED AUG,30,1911.

Patented Aug. 25, 1914.

/iivrivrf 5i M LA; www( 'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREWL. RIKER, or iauunefm'o RTY ceNNEcTIcUT, ASSIGNOR- `To THELoc-jeje@ 'BTLE" COMPANY oF-AMEMCA, or NEW lYorin, Y., A conroiiATI'N'or WEST 1 VIRGINIA. i

' BAND BRAKE Specification oi Letters Patent.

. 1,108,851. v i niipii'a'tiun'meiiAugusiso, 1911, saisine. 646,118. f

of the hand for. briiki'ngi'iU po'sesvan case of automobile brakes;

loosely attached,-supportsiwliiehe dtetlie Y noise and rattle @jf-themachineI whenffoithe To all whomjitniay concern: Y

Beit knownethat vLfANDRin'v L. Rini-:ii= a.

citizen of the United States,-and a resident.

of Bridgeport, eo'unty ofi Fairfield, State of tion, like characters'enthe drawings reputilization of substantially .-thefentii'efbandLgreenting like parts. "for braking purposes, s'iicl i"niei1n,v.ii'owewgrf ing more particulzi'rlyfintended.to pi'm'ide Stiintizillyall riittle und shiili'eis eliiiiiiiiited-Y meansy for freeing a band"brake from its Upon the rond. l .j

drinn when unelasped therefrom. Referring to the drziwf', the hand. 3 isi'm- Improvement in Band-Brakes, of which the following .dese'ription,connectionl with the 'accompanying drawings, is V'aspecifica- Theini'entioiifwill .he vhe'tV understood hy reference to tli'efollowingdescription when 'taken in' connection with`theiieeoni-piinyinf;

` iliustrationfofone specific embodiment thereseetionl :eleviition takenthrough a brake of, while its vscope will he' more particu.-A liirlyvpointed out in tlie'zi-ppended lclaims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is. a. central,

druni land band brake fein l io'dy ing onev foi-rn the parts of. thehand intermediate the'endsl` leased, w'liile at vthe same time admitting'the connected zit two points. iiiteii'riedinte'*fits 7' ends to curvedresilient iiienqhersxLL-1 T- he latter might -be sepiirfitev zichf'fronithe sitiite two arms -oflii nuit-ar spring, the inid port-ion. ofv..

of. my invention;aridffig, a detail i .p :ir'tof the in'zieliiiie siieliii .-i t.hediStiinee Semen takefi on iheiiiie egeinA ini. i. bar 14 The#im preferably.-@benennen Referring tothedra' irigs'ziiidltoithe ein#nee s :ii' ily,v lorfiited :it '1i-.point substantially, bodiment'of.the 4iriverition"ftheire diseloed; 180 from the ends 'o f tlie.l1iiinffleiiiid the.A for illustrative'purposes?Ifliave' shown. 'the'-sfpi'ingiii'rns Il, which. ziifeeiirvedjto eiiihriieii.`same'embodied'in thefforinofii'nl-automobile th@ 'hlfmi fifi' ilSUhSuntirll,dist-'axiom' herein s'l brake, thesame comprising Vprimarilythe zii'ipi'oiii'niiieiy its semi-cireiiiiifeieiiee, iifie brakedriim 1mounted 0n the drim'ishaft eii` l"l"`f-`l"m" ""mwm {ghe-1709" "my atbei? circled bythe brakejbam 11d/ving the iigiiiil ends so :is to lesivethe iiiteijii'iediiiteportion lining' 4 of lfiiellioi'iiniiteriiiLfi-'hiy iisiizil "f he lfllil fl'i@ "mi, dlf'lllli:"The "91rd(fi 35 means for eliispiiig the hand about thv li-iin Hlth. IVULL Hl'fulv .1t-Uff# bidt- '15 QO.' are provided, the Same being lier-vin dimmif, passing through lugs l ihe lsiitei' riveted consist, 0f the bellCrunk lewr. ph'nggliy or otherwifii .si-mired to the .sidesv 'of the lconnected to one end of the hand und the brake [mnd/3" I link 6 pivntedto the other end, 'The layup Then the ends of the hund :ire clasped 40 5is forked and has pivoted therein :i him-.k :ih-nit the driiiii theSpring :iiiiin more iriv95 7 through which the link (3 pusgeg, 'fm- @miwiiid with a readily yieldii'ig inoveiiiei'it, perof the link beingvthrei'idediind lim-"ing isp niilting-tiie hziiulihisping devices to'driiw plied thereto the lock mit 8, A Spring f) the 'mind intoiietiomil eoiitiiet with the encircling the link tends to separat@ the@nds iiiiiiri for its entire circumferential eXteriti 5.0f the hand, butthe latter muy he applied The support. f iii'ei'zw' sulistnntiiilly noobstiiie- 10o by a movement of the iictuiiliiig rod ll tion to contact;of the haiiil with-t-hevdi'iim at jointed to the end of -tlie heilei'zinic hvi-,r 5. points inteiutiealii'ite thil .enfle of the-il'l-HL'In brakes of this dass it. i5 dfif-.ult to free :ii'iiis :is is the:ziise with hrzike hund s uppoi's the entire, or even the major port. ofthe which hohl the enter of thei'niind in -fixed 59 brake hand from thedrinn when its,I eiifls iii'e punition. On the other hand the realli-hey105 Opened by the releasing devices. Un the of (.hear'ins if; #Heh(hr-:t when the hlid 1` other hand, if devices are employed forfieeiinflzisyu-fl iiie :spiiiigs'teiid to open. ihe Te ing4 intermediateparts of the brake band sulti-.iit iiioxfemeiit of the ends of i-z-jarms is from the drum such devices usually inter hoth outward iiiiilii-ickwiird, imi is to say, fere With the utilization of the entireextent the band is not eiiiy drawn siightly away il@ from the drnmfatthe .points where the spring ends are attached so as to free the bandthereat, but these points of the band are also shifted slightlytowardand in the 6 direction of the fixed. sup ort 13 so that allintermediate parts of the and are .likewise freed from the drurn/ Averyslightfreein movement of the band only is' `required auf?, v jto.accomplishthis, the spring arms need exe- 10 `cute but a very .smallmovement.

It will be observed in. the formo'f the inv'ention illustrated that thespring arms 11 notonl serve to free the '-b-nd from the brake rum, butconstitute the` anchor or tabllshed relation to the' drum. v

In employing the term-band brake, I, of course, include all s'uclidevices as :ire adapted to encircle and apply friction to .a rotan 'lingbodywhether strictly in th'e form of bands, and'in-using the term drum',l in- .35 a band brake 'encirclinthe same i means engagin the endsof.the and f orc nspi-'ng the same a out the drum,and,1nterinediate` band'freeingmearns comprising a member vin the form of a leafv spring xed atits middle at a 4 0 Boint substantially. 180 from the' ends of'the andvand curved to embrace. the band for substantially itssemi-circumference, 'the endsof the spring being connected to the @andand the intermediate part thereof being detached therefrom.

2, The combination with a brake"drurniofl f"support forthe:bnnd'uwhichholdsit' in es-` comprising a fixed supprt'interm'edifatethe endsofthe1 band,A -a' curved'lfesilient member securedvto saidsupportbut"extending.there from to partly encircle' the"'band, 'saidSupl port being. 'attached to saidbandfto'free vthe latter whenunclasped. y 4. .The combination lwith. 'abijaleA drum' l1 of the bandbrake' 4f,-4 the' resilient" arm A1l having the connection 15-16'to thebrake 65 band, and the fixed snpport"513.` ".f' 1

5. The combination with-'ab k a band brake encirclingf the' claspingmeans, andk means separated points 'of "the b termediate part thereof.from-t A 1e v mea ns comprising resilifet; membersdmiing each a Alixedend and :fi-connection'totlie. blind. and serving as theanchorprsilpportfor the band. i 'ff f The colnbination'rvith'a. rollterum of a band brake encircling 5th freeing `and anchoringgm fixedsupport internred` band, a curved resilien said support'butjext@ partlyencircle 'the 'bai'id'x' s'f attached to said-'ba r'1 '."llg `f`v thesame butto 'the claspedl 2. 1;

In testimonyv whereof," I name to this sp'eciii:atiorl,

Vitnesses: y

IVM', S. TEEL, Jr. B. J. CoNNoLLY.- 'p

